Swine Flu - are you worried?

[Evil Chris]

I'm a little concerned. Reason being, there aren't a ton of cases really, but they are spread out in small numbers everywhere.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/..._reality_check

Thoughts?

[Vid Vicious]

stop playing with pigs and you'll be fine

[DrChango]

don't go to Mexico on vacation, lol


right now the DVD sales folks down the hall are making piggy noises at each other to invoke the swine flu, lol

[Rochard]

Am I worried about this? You betcha. This is how the world fucking ends.

Someone is going to fuck a goat who has the goat flu, and that goat will end up passing it to a duck. The duck will eat some bad meat, and combined with the human goat fucker flu it will mutate into something that kills and kills quickly. You get the point.

Look at aids. Now imagine that AIDS is spread by common contact, a few germs, and kills within weeks - not years. And bingo - Suddenly the 98% of the human race is gone.

This is some scary shit.

[Cyndalie]

The poor, malnourished, old, and those lacking health care (ie. insurance if you are in the US) are the ones that need to worry right now.

[Janell]

I hadn't anything about it until this morning its all over the news. As the day goes on I am becoming more concerned that's exactly what I need right now.

[Panky]

I'm not worried or concerned about it at all. Every single day, we are exposed to any number of things that can make us sick and/or kill us. All anyone can do is to be aware of the world around them and take the necessary precautions to reduce the risk. I'm not about to spend my life cooped up in my house, having minimum to zero human contact, for fear I could become ill and/or die.

[carol.prime]

I'm worried of course. But I think the best way to do is to prevent those foods.
Prevention is always better than cure.

[HeavenLeeGoddess]

Originally Posted by Cyndalie

The poor, malnourished, old, and those lacking health care (ie. insurance if you are in the US) are the ones that need to worry right now.

Actually people between 25-45 have to watch real close..... If you notice pretty much every case here in the us are between 25-45 with good immune systems..... Its not just the flu that kills you.... When people have good immune systems and when you get the flu it puts your immune system in overdrive and you body cant handle it.....

[HeavenLeeGoddess]

Originally Posted by carol.prime

I'm worried of course. But I think the best way to do is to prevent those foods.
Prevention is always better than cure.

We dont have to worry about it passing through the food cause its not in the food..... We have to make sure we wash our hands sneeze and cough into a tissue or when we dont have tissue sneeze or cough into your elbow.....

People themselves have to take precautions.....

[lulu]

i'm not too worried.

[Magnus3x]

I'm more worried about the paranoia, the jumping to conclusions, the full boar Ninja media assault. Toronto has a right to be extra worried because it had the SARS outbreak a few years ago, but they learned a lot about containment and control, which the rest of the world seems to be out of.

- Normal influenza has killed more people since Jan 09.
- Those who die from this are likely the elderly the very young and those with weakened immune systems.

Let's relax and get on with living till the next wave of hysteria hits the media. What happened to Octomom? That was a simpler time then wasn't it?

[Evil Chris]

I thought about either REM or Sabbath for this post. Sabbath won out.

[NicAngel]

nah. i'm just gonna stop dating pigs.

[born2blog]

I'm not really worried but I do hope they get this under control soon

[LizAEBN]

I'm actually not. Seems like every few years, we have a new, terrifying pandemic threat on the horizon. And maybe that's mother Nature trying to tell us something.

[DrChango]

over-population leads to famine, plague, and war

[RD_Shane]

Not really. There's always some new flu that's gonna wipe us all out.

[dyonisus]

I am not worried, famine plague war, if it is not one thing it is another.